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“They judge me because I nurture my child, I judge them because they tell me not to.”

Mitta Xinindlu Parenting Children Motherhood Quotes Children Quotes Loving Mother New Mom Children Are The Future Mom Guilt

Author:Mitta Xinindlu

“The realities of motherhood are often obscured by a halo of illusions. The future mother tends to fantasize about love and happiness and overlooks the other aspects of child-rearing: the exhaustion, frustration, loneliness, and even depression, with its attendant state of guilt.”

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Book:The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women

Source: The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women

“Motherhood often feels like a game of guilt management. Sometimes the guilt is overwhelming and debilitating. Sometimes just a low simmer, but it always feels right there. There is never any shortage of fuel to feed the beast, so the whole mechanism is constantly nourished to administer shame and a general feeling of incompetency. Add our carefully curated social media world, which not only affects our sense of success and failure, but also furnishes our children with an unprecedented brand of expectations, and BOOM – we’re the generation that does more for our kids than ever in history, yet feels the guiltiest. Virtually every one of my friends provides more than they had growing up, and still the mantra we buy into is ‘not enough, not enough, not enough.’ Meanwhile, if we developed the chops to tune out the ordinary complaints of children, we’d see mostly happy kids, loved and nurtured, cared for and treasured.”

Guilt Parenting Mom Guilt

Book:Of Mess and Moxie: Wrangling Delight Out of This Wild and Glorious Life

Source: Of Mess and Moxie: Wrangling Delight Out of This Wild and Glorious Life